Department of Malayalam

POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF MALAYALAM AND RESEARCH CENTRE

The Department of Malayalam has a history as old as the college and has made commendable contributions towards research in literature and study of Kerala culture. The Malayalam B.O.L degree course which was one of the first courses started in the college was later converted to B.A. Malayalam.The Department has had a number of famous Malayalam scholars as faculty members. Prof. E.K. Naryanan Potty and Prof. P. Appukuttamenon were the first faculty members of the Malayalam Department. Later Prof. N.V. Krishnavariyar and Prof. D. Padmanabanunny joined the department. When Prof. N.V. Krishnavariyar assumed editorship of the coveted Malayalam literary weekly Mathrubhoomi, Prof. M.S. Menon joined as faculty.

Other eminent faculty members like Prof. K.P. Narayna Pishorody, Prof. K. Ramanunny Variyar, Prof. Akavoor Narayanan, Prof. K.P. Sankaran, Dr. V.S. Sharma, Prof. Thiruthikode Prabakaran Nair, Vidwan K. Kunjunny, Prof. K Amminyamma, Prof. K. Balachandran Kartha, Dr. M.M. Purushothaman Nair, Prof. K. Kali, Prof. K. Rajan, Prof. P. Naraya Menon, Dr. Shornur Karthikeyan, Dr. Kalpetta Balakrishnan and Dr. K. Saraswathy, Prof R Gopalakrishnapillai, Prof V G Thampy, Prof P P Saraswathiy, Dr C R Rajagopalan, Dr T R Sivasankaran nair, Dr M V Balakrishnan. As a testimony to the eminence of these faculty members, the UGC has awarded five year professorship tenure after retirement to Prof. E.K. Naryanan Potty and Prof. K.P. Narayna Pishoroty. Prof. P.G. Purshothaman Pillai has also functioned as UGC Professor for sometime.